f15h :mastodon: :coffefied: 🇺🇦
@f15h@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@davva23 @wandrecanada @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic Closer to 1914, during #WW1: “Tobacco was valued as a #wartime necessity, a fact that the tobacco #industry seized upon in its #advertising that featured #soldiers, flags, and all the trappings of a triumphal nation making the world safe for #democracy. At home, tobacco funds were established to ‘send smokes to the boys’, eventually sending 16 billion cigarettes as part of relief by the war’s end.”
https://csts.ua.edu/wwi/introduction/
Michael Magras
@michaelmagras@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Golly, I wonder why France can bar a candidate from running for president after a court conviction, but the US couldn't do it. Some countries are more civilized and have a greater sense of decency than others, I guess. #Politics #Democracy #France #US #USA #USpol #MarineLePenhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/marine-le-pen-barred-from-running-for-french-presidency-in-2027